Word: poore
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Tonight a man, prominent not only for his exited position in the English Church, but even more for his remarkable work among the poor of London, will speak on a subject on which he is an authority--"Some Problems of Great Critics." These problems belong to us as well as to England, in fact, their importance to us is steadily increasing with the ever swelling tide of immigrants, who congregate in our large cities and who, by their socialistic tendencies, constitute a menace to or established form of government. We should welcome this opportunity to get at first hand...
...Oxford House, Benthal Green, rector of Benthal Green, rural dean of Spitalfields, cannot of St. Paul's Cathedral, Bishop of Stepney, and in 1901 Bishop of London. It is as Bishop of Stepney, in the east part of London, that the bishop is best known to the London poor. He had been known primarily as a rough and ready member of the Church, ever willing to mingle with the poorest of the slums, without family influence at court, and accustomed to meet all comers in religious controversy in the great meetings in Victoria Park. But suddenly...
Bishop Ingram's greatest work has been among the poor of London. While cannot of St. Paul's he preached his famous series of sermons of "Men who Crucify Christ," in which he mercilessly arranged the large property owners living in the best quarters of London who were growing rich from the exorbitant rents of their tenements in the slums. When he became Bishop of London he used his greater influence constantly in the interests of the poor, realizing that the segregation of the rich is one of the greatest evils of society. While he was at Oxford, where...
...attend the tercentary of the establishment of the Church of England in America. As Bishop of London, to which diocese he was appointed in 1901, thereby becoming in importance second only to the Archbishops of York and Canterbury, he is well known to the world, but to the London poor he is best known as Bishop of Stepney, an office which he held previous to his appointment to the bishopric of London. Graduated from Oxford in 1881, he became, three years later, a curate at St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, and subsequently head of the Oxford House in Bethnal Green, rector...
Captain Higgins was the star player of the Maine team. He was the mainstay of their secondary defense, which was usually obliged to stop the Harvard backs. Maine showed poor judgment in receiving on every kick-off, for the ball was thus always in their territory and they were not strong enough to rush...